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Waking up to frost on the lawn means fall, and chilly mornings become the norm – although in North Carolina, sunny and warm days will continue on through winter days. Family traditions with outdoor activities on Thanksgiving Day leave memories of both warm and miserable outside playtime with your friends and family.

Likewise for New Year’s Day, when my crew often takes to the nearby park for a game of croquet. Some years it’s sunglasses and t-shirts and others it’s football on TV, as there’s snow outside.

We elaborate on some events perfect for the whole family this issue: the Annual Festival of Trees benefitting the Sandhills Children’s Center, where you can purchase a fully themedecorated tree; witnessing the Blessing of the Hounds on Thanksgiving Day; or a short side trip to Seagrove to the three-day Seagrove Pottery Festival.

Whatever the weather, be sure to check out our calendar of activities and enjoy your Sandhills fall to the maximum, whether you’re indoors at cultural events or outdoors at sporting events in the fine North Carolina sunshine.

Holiday entertaining planning is upon us; in an effort to assist, we’ve put together ideas and shortcuts to keep your feet up and your house looking good. Our stress-free entertaining section is brimming with tools to keep everyone enjoying themselves for the next few weeks. Did you know there are concierge services that will do anything from running errands to decorating your tree, or even planning day trips for your visiting family? And don’t forget the food – we’ve got you covered, whether you decide to hire a catering service for foolproof entertaining, have a partial catering solution by buying handmade holiday desserts from local purveyors, or want to cook the whole thing yourself and serve only healthy choices.

Jenni Hart has advice for dealing with in-laws and extended relatives over the turkey and stuffing, and Corbie Hill gives some ideas of “giving the gift of experiences”. Our local merchant gift guide catalogue should stir up the imagination for anyone on your list; whether it be gift certificates, specialty gift items or sports cars, we’ve got it all this issue!

November and December mean letters from worthy charities looking for end-of-year support via donations. Read up on some local groups that could use your support – by giving time or money – for those looking to get involved.

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took over the reins. “I want to keep increasing the number of people touched by this program, and increase the nutritional value,” says Flagg.

What started serving one school and 25 children has grown to 31 schools, serving 1,000 children a week. Why the name BackPack Pals?

Flagg explained, “So as not to single out a child in need, food is put into their backpacks. They look like all the other children carrying their books home.” Children are identified as program candidates with input from teachers, school nurses, counselors and social workers. Once identified, letters are sent home to obtain permission from the parents/guardians for the child to participate.

Flagg is a mother of three, originally from Arlington, Virginia with a master’s degree in English. She has a background in food services and massage therapy, and loves to cook and garden.

Flagg says, “I have always had a holistic approach to food and nutrition. My goal is to bring more nutritious food to children. One of the things I am most proud of is providing the BackPack children with snacks high in protein with less sugar, and the best quality fruits and vegetables.”

Volunteers for BackPack Pals are recruited from churches, civic clubs and local organizations.

They organize fundraising events; others meet every Thursday and set up an assembly line of products that will be distributed that week while others do the delivery. “It is gratifying to see the community involvement,” says Flagg. “For example, Teen Challenge, a recovery group for teenagers, distributes to four schools. The program is always looking for fundraising ideas and volunteers.”

Says Flagg, “My goal is better food for everyone, and my dream is to one day have land at one location with a free source of water. We would create a garden that would be embraced by everyone in the community, and we could all learn from it and harvest the benefits.”

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At first glance one might think BackPack Pals is a hiking group. In reality it is about feeding children, and Andrea Flagg has recently taken on the task of program director.

BackPack Pals, a program of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, was organized

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Southern Chatter tech radar

Propella E-Bike Boosts Speed Rechargeable Battery Powers Motor

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Propella Electric has created AN e-bike that offers motorized help on hills, but stays true to the look and feel of a regular bicycle. The single-speed bike has a minimalistic design and a steel frame that weighs in at less than 35 pounds – lighter than other electric bikes in the market.

The e-bike includes a small rear hub-motor, which the rider activates with a thumb throttle.

The further the rider pushes the throttle, the more power the motor gives – up to 19mph (most states in the US have a legal speed limit of 20mph for e-bikes). The motor is powered by a removable, rechargeable battery pack with the same type of Lithium-ion cells used in Tesla automobiles. The battery lasts up to 25 miles between charges.

When the rider applies the bike’s brake levers, the motor automatically disengages, allowing the rider to brake manually without having to

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fight an accelerating motor. The bike does not include regenerative braking, as that would require a heavier direct-drive motor. Also, this bike’s geared hub-motor provides higher torque – making it easier to climb city hills.

The Seattle-based startup is trending with millennials looking for an easier commute and a way to reduce carbon emissions. Founder Ben Tarassoli hopes to see his product become more popular due to its design, social impact, and affordability within its class. He believes a good e-bike must first be a good bike, and part of the product’s popularity is due to Propella successfully bridging the gap between the two.

The bike is available in three colors – Matte Black, Anodized Blue and Anodized Red – and three frame sizes, based on the rider’s height. It’s available online only, and Propella is accepting pre-orders for $849 at propellabikes.com.

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Southern Chatter ask the pro Q: What are your marching orders from U.S. Kids Golf?

A: To try everything and anything within the framework of the youth academies curriculum. We have had a curriculum in place for several years and have certified thousands of coaches across the country, but we are probably due for a bit of an update. They want me to help with that update here.

We call this place a living laboratory.

Q: How many kids do you want to teach each year?

A: I don’t have a number goal. We feel like this is very similar to the Field of Dreams – we built it and they will come. They are already coming. This is so unique and we fit a niche that is perfect. We’re really, really good with kids from ages five to 12, and after that point they go on to play for their junior high school and they tend to lose contact with U.S. Kids Golf.

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Jim Hardy came to North Carolina for the first time this summer to accept a position as director of the newly formed U.S. Kids Golf Academy at Longleaf Golf & Family Club in Southern Pines. Hardy began his career in the golf business in 1996 after buying a practice range and adjacent land for a lighted par-3 course in Houston. The 53-year-old Hardy and his wife have four adopted children. Hardy recently discussed his goals for the academy in the latest installment of Pinehurst Magazine’s “Ask the Pro.”

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Q: What is all the construction going on at Longleaf?

A: U.S. Kids Golf has spent a ton of time figuring out the percentages of how far a golf club will go, so we’re scaling that to the kids. We’re building seven sets of tees here, with the shortest at about 3,000 yards, and they are gapped approximately 600 yards per tees. It is kind of the Jordan Spieth model.

The No. 1 golfer in the world grew up playing U.S. Kids Golf and has been making birdies all his life because he’s been playing from the correct tees. So he reaches greens in regulation and has had birdie putts all his life.

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Southern Chatter wine review

The Value of Vallana A classic Italian wine returns to America.

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It’s fun to say the words “Vallana Spanna” before you even try the wine. They roll off the tongue as easily and as richly as the wine rolls on and over it. The wine comes from the commune of Boca in the Piemonte region of northern Italy, not far from Milan and right near the more heralded areas of Barolo and Barbaresco, whose wines are both made from the Nebbiolo grape. So is Vallana’s: “Spanna” is the word for Nebbiolo in the local dialect.

At its best, Nebbiolo is both light on the palate yet powerful and rich in flavor, a trick few grapes pull off. It might be called the Pinot Noir of Italy, but its aromatics are typically deeper and more brooding: a contrasting, complex, beguiling masculine/feminine mix of rose petal, black cherry and tar – a wine like no other. Barolo and Barbaresco command great respect and, often, accompanying high prices.

Vallana is in the Alto Piemonte, where the soil is quite different from Barolo and Barbaresco; the Boca Nebbiolo (Spanna) produces a noticeably different wine – and because it is dwarfed by its more famous neighboring denominaziones, the wine is much less expensive (usually under $20).

Yet it is just as venerable. The Vallana family has been making wine since at least the late 1700s, and there is not only age in the estate but also ageworthiness in its bottles: decades-old Vallana vintages are common on the secondary market.

Yet, for a while, Vallana’s wines weren’t available locally. As the family guard changed over the last two decades, they narrowed their business

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scope and suspended exportation. Recently, they rejoined the American market – coincidentally, through nearby Durham, where Piedmont Wine Imports’ owner, Jay Murrie, was introduced to the Vallanas’ fifth generation of family winemakers.

This trio of young siblings was just taking control of (and re-expanding) operations, and they offered Murrie the chance to import them and reintroduce these hallowed wines to America. (Incidentally, any wine with a Piedmont Wine Imports label on the back is worth your time and money.)

Vallana makes a few different wines. Their juicy, affable-and-quaffable Campi Raudii (“Red Fields”) and delicious Barbera are meant for young drinking while you wait for their other wines to mature, such as the Colline Novaresi Spanna, which is at once rustic and elegant, serious but supple, expressive of its home and history, and great with risotto. You’ll want to stay pleasantly lost in the land of Nebbiolo – the word means “foggy” in English.

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Southern Chatter book review

Our Heroes are Human

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When we’re young, we look up to our heroes with unquestioning devotion. The sun rises and sets on them, until we realize our heroes are human, just like us. That realization can bring our world crashing down – and bring with it disillusionment, too. One of the great heroes of American literature, Atticus Finch, turns out to be human after all. The story of how “Scout” Finch came to this realization is revealed in Go Set A Watchman.

Lee’s rendition of her childhood in rural Alabama, To Kill A Mockingbird, is an iconic book, required reading for schoolchildren throughout America. She supposedly submitted Watchman first, but was persuaded by an astute GO SET A WATCHMAN Harper Lee 278 pages HarperCollins $27.99

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editor to write and publish Mockingbird instead.

For years, she declined to publish Watchman, despite popular demand for a follow-up. Why now, so many years later? Infirm and debilitated by a stroke, Lee, aged 89, may be unable to fully address that question.

For readers familiar with Mockingbird, some of the characters are still here. Atticus, Aunt Alexandra and Uncle Jack are back, but missing are Jem and Dill. “Scout” is 26 years old now and is returning to Maycomb for a visit. She lives in New York City and has seen more of the world.

On this trip home she is in for a surprise about her father’s beliefs. He was her childhood hero, and still she had no reason to doubt him. She stumbles, however, upon a racist tract on his reading table, and follows him to a town meeting where the speaker spouts racist vitriol. Atticus sits quietly through the rants – something her adored hero would never contemplate.

Her coming to grips with the town, her uncle, and her father is the story of the book. Recent Supreme Court rulings, desegregation orders, changing cultural mores – all were enough to make the people of Maycomb dig in their heels.

Three main debates – between her and Uncle Jack, erstwhile fiancé Henry, and then Atticus – explain what Maycomb was dealing with. To Atticus, the Supreme Court was tearing away the fabric of Southern society. Someone, from somewhere else far away, was telling them how to live.

Harper Lee’s observations are authentic and thought-provoking, no doubt based on her own experiences. The writing style is the same as in Mockingbird, though it’s pretty hard to top that effort. She shows that change, when it threatens to upend your town’s way of life, will cause sparks.

She also shows how painful it is to discover that our heroes are human. Confronting that discovery, and dealing with difficult change, is a necessary part of growing up.

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Four Seasons on Broad is less than two years old, but if you have any history in the Sandhills, its chef, Carlos Saavedra, may have been cooking for you for years. The native of Mexico was a chef at Four Seasons in New York – whence comes his current restaurant’s name – among other establishments in the city, and he was a personal chef to celebrities like John Travolta before moving his family down to the Sandhills about 20 years ago. Saavedra cooked at the Country Club of North Carolina, and also worked as a private chef in people’s homes, before opening his own place, El Canaveral, in Southern Pines in 1998, along with a grocery store. Later, he was the proprietor of the popular Gigi’s Pizza.

As his children grew up, he wanted to have a place for family, both to work and to dine.

He opened Four Seasons on Broad, where Saavedra’s wife works in the kitchen, along with one of his sons; another son, also named Carlos, is the manager and co-owner; cousins are cashiers and wait staff. In this age of faceless corporate chains and drab boilerplate menus, Four Seasons on Broad is a rare breed: a familyrun, chef-driven restaurant.

The restaurant, which is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, is described by Saavedra as “mostly Italian and American.” You’ll find risotto, pasta pescatore and other Italian dishes on the menu; Lobster Benedict at breakfast; a hearty blackened ribeye at dinner, and even liver and

onions – plus inventions like a peach schnapps grilled pork chop (for which Saavedra provided this issue’s recipe). On Thursday “fiesta nights” he reaches for his Mexican roots, with a new dish on the menu each week. And, as befits a family place, there’s a children’s menu – in fact, kids eat free Tuesday through Thursday.

But why did Saavedra move his family away from New York? The story involves not John Travolta, but another Italian-American celebrity. Saavedra was cooking at a place in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, where a pushy regular customer had a habit of showing up with his associates before the restaurant opened and demanding service. After accommodating them a few times, Saavedra told his boss it was interfering with his dinner prep. “You have to cook for him,” his boss insisted. The disagreement grew louder. Finally, the customer came into the kitchen to settle it by introducing himself.

“Don’t you know who I am?” Saavedra did not.

“I’m John Gotti,” the customer said.

Saavedra had never heard of John Gotti. He had work to do, and like any self-respecting chef, he said so.

“I like you,” Gotti said. “You should come and be my personal chef.” Mafiosi esteem men who do the job.

Fortunately, it was an offer Saavedra could refuse. He decided it was time to get out of New York. Surely his family is better off for it – and so are his customers in the Sandhills.

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Southern Chatter sunday supper

Peach Schnapps Pork C with Grilled Asparagus Spears and Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Peach Schnapps Glaze Ingredients: ½ oz 1 oz 1 tsp 3 oz 2 oz

Unsalted butter Pure honey Powdered cinnamon Peaches, fresh or frozen Peach schnapps liquor

Glaze Method:

1. Heat up a medium-sized pan on high heat. Bring the first four ingredients to a boil. Carefully pour in the peach schnapps liquor (will cause slight flames).

2. Once flames have subsided, reduce heat to a simmer and let glaze reduce until syrupy, stirring continuously to keep glaze from burning, about 10-15 minutes.

Grilled Pork Chop Ingredients: 1 12 oz French-cut pork chop For brushing Virgin olive oil To taste Kosher salt and black pepper

Pork Chop Method: 1. Heat a grill to medium-high heat. Brush both sides of the pork chop with olive oil and season with salt and pepper to taste, just before grilling.

2. Grill pork chop for about 6-7 minutes per side for medium, or until done to your liking.

3. Transfer pork chop to the glazed saucepan and cover it with the glaze; then transfer to a platter and drizzle pork chop with any remaining glaze.

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Chop Grilled Asparagus Spears Photo by McKenzie Photography

Ingredients: 8 2 Tbsp 2 Tbsp 2-3 cloves To taste To taste To taste

Asparagus spears Virgin olive oil Balsamic vinegar Fresh garlic, minced Salt and black pepper Rosemary Basil

Asparagus Method: 1. Drizzle asparagus spears in the virgin oil and the balsamic vinegar.

2. Mix remaining seasonings and season asparagus with mixture.

3. Grill for 2-3 minutes on medium heat.

Garlic Mashed potatoes Ingredients:

2 2 oz ½ cup 4 To taste

Yukon Gold potatoes Unsalted butter Heavy cream Fresh garlic cloves Salt and black pepper

Potatoes Method:

1. Peel potatoes and boil 15-20 minutes until very soft.

2. Remove, pour out water and reduce heat to medium.

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Locally Sourced Crafts for 93 Years

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by corbie hill and sioux watson

The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange in Pinehurst is a rare find in the US, the only in NC and just one of 20 of the Federation of Woman’s Exchanges, the longest running women’s volunteer organization in the country, “Helping Exchanges Help Others since 1836”. Its mission continues as a “national organization of Woman’s Exchanges whose goal is to help members of our community achieve economic stability through consignment and sale of fine-quality, hand-crafted items.” The movement began in Philadelphia in 1832, and the Sandhills Exchange started ninety years later in 1922, originally to help local farmwomen earn income by selling their handcrafted items.

The Exchange opened at its current location in 1923 as a salesroom for the handiwork of all Moore County Women, enabling homebound Moore County women to earn personal income by selling handcrafts, preserves, and quilts. According to an October 1923 Pilot story announcing its opening, the business existed at the perfect intersection of Pinehurst winter guests’ desire for local knick-knacks and provisions and of Moore County women’s need for additional income.

In 1924, a Pilot story reported, the Exchange sold $2,500 worth of goods – which, if the internet is to be trusted, means about $34,000 in 2015 money.

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The cabin housing the Woman’s Exchange was ancient when it was opened – a 1928 Pilot story asserts it was 125 years old even at the time, and it had previously been the residence of Tom Cotton, a beloved, familiar groundskeeper. Two new wings were added to the cabin – one in late 1928 and then another room in 1934. Its 1942 open house was a success, despite a snowstorm, though 1947 saw the business “not quite equal to last year’s.” Still, the Exchange powered through and survived – only two years later, its meetings drew 40 members. By 1953, it served lunch as well.

By April of 2014, with an aging base of volunteers and a steadying decrease in business for both café and craft shop, the board felt forced to shutter the doors of the Exchange. Publicity of this decision saw an outpouring of support from the community, and the organization reopened and saw an uptick in revenues from the café and sales in the craft shop. Board leadership then decided to actively seek protection of the site no matter what the future health of the group was, and in May filed paperwork with Preservation NC. Fast-forward to October 2015. When we reached them the week before Halloween, Exchange GM and former Board Chair Karen Lehto joyfully blurted out,

“We are open and thriving!” Turns out the Sandhills community rallied hard to save the beloved institution with support, donations and infused energy. Seven new board members led by Chair Cav Peterson have fresh ideas and enthusiasm, and today are breathing new life into the Women’s Exchange.

And it’s no longer JUST women – over 60 men and women crafters are represented. A part of the shop is again a museum with items on loan from locals and the Moore County Historic Society for viewing. Additionally, people can now donate antiques or collectibles to be sold, knowing 100% of the profits go directly to the Exchange.

Volunteer wait staff and dishwashers donate gratuities directly to the Exchange. Paid staff has grown from one part-time employee (the cook) to two, five days a week. Former Board Chair Lehto has taken on the role of General Manager, and she oversees new initiatives – such as regular lunch and learn series featuring local artists as speakers, and renting the building and grounds out for private functions.

Lehto ends our conversation with more happy news; Preservation NC has processed their application, and their official plaque will be presented next week, ensuring that the building and land “gifted in trust” to them by the Tufts family can never be torn down.

Now celebrating its 93rd year, the Exchange continues with support of volunteers, donors and the craft store (TuesdaySaturday from 10am-3pm) and cafe (open Tuesday-Saturday from 11:30am-2pm).

The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange is at 15 Azalea Road, 910.295.4677 www.sandhillswe.weebly.com

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Calendar of Events november & december Lunch ‘n’ Learn with Helen Von Salzen ‘Tea Time in the Sandhills’ November 4 | 10:30am Sandhills Woman’s Exchange 15 Azalea Road | Pinehurst 910.295.4677 Writer-in-Residence Series: Lois Holt November 4 | 5:30pm Weymouth Center 555 East Connecticut Avenue Southern Pines 910.692.6261 | weymouthcenter.org Friend to Friend’s Take Back the Night November 4 | 6pm Sandhills Community College Owens Auditorium Courtyard 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.947.3333 | friendtofriend.me MAKING BOTANICAL PRINTS November 6 | 10am-12pm Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882 Fall Festival November 7 | 9am-3pm First Presbyterian Church 110 Ray Street | Carthage Lots of crafts, food, silent auction, spaghetti lunch and more.

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Weymouth Biennial Tag Sale November 7 | 9am-3pm November 8 | 1-3pm Weymouth Center 555 East Connecticut Avenue Southern Pines 910.692.6261 | weymouthcenter.org 35th ANNUAL GOLF CAPITAL CHORUS FALL CONCERT November 7 | 7 pm Robert E. Lee Auditorium Pinecrest High School | Pinehurst 910.295.3529 White Elephant Sale and Raffle Pre-Sale November 6 | 2-4pm November 7 | 8am-1pm Sacred Heart Church Founders Hall NC 211/Dundee Road sacredheartpinehurst.org 910.695.0886 2015 VGA Championship Gala Dinner November 9 | 5:30pm The Carolina Hotel 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst vgagolf.org Sandhills Photo Club Meeting November 9 | 7pm Speaker: Mike Dunn, a naturalist Hannah Theater Center The O’Neal School 3300 Airport Road | Southern Pines sandhillsphotoclub.org

Colt Ford Concert November 9 | 8pm Pinehurst Arboretum 395 Magnolia Road | Pinehurst secure.wazoo-tix.com/events/coltford Black Hawk Down Screening November 10 | 5 & 8pm Pinehurst Fair Barn 200 Beulah Hill Road South | Pinehurst vgagolf.org Weymouth Dirt Gardeners: Bulb Planting Event November 10 | 10am-11:30pm Weymouth Center 555 East Connecticut Avenue Southern Pines 910.692.6261 | weymouthcenter.org MANAGING FIRE ANTS IN THE LANDSCAPE November 12 | 1pm Owens Auditorium Sandhills Community College 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst landscapegarding@sandhills.edu Favorite Light Classics with The North Carolina Symphony November 14 | 8pm Lee Auditorium at Pinecrest High School 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | Southern Pines 919.733.2750 | ncsymphony.org BOLSHOI BALLET via Satellite ‘JEWELS’ November 15 | 1pm Sunrise Theater Tickets $25 250 NW Broad | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com Carolina Christmas Bazaar November 21 | 8am-3pm Wesley Memorial United Church 1225 Chestnut Drive | High Point 336.472.4710 | bstrowd@northstate.net

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SUNRISE MET OPERA EVENT Live via Satellite ‘Berg’s LULU’ November 21 | 12:30pm Sunrise Theater Tickets $27 250 NW Broad | Southern Pines (Subtitled in English) 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com Taylor Dancehouse presents The Nutcracker November 27 | 7:30pm November 28-29 | 2pm Pinecrest High School 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | Southern Pines taylordancetheplayhouse.org Lunch ‘n’ Learn with Carol Tilton ‘It’s Not Your Mother’s/ Grandmother’s Needlepoint’ December 2 | 10:30am Sandhills Woman’s Exchange 15 Azalea Road | Pinehurst 910.295.4677 Weymouth Christmas House Preview Gala December 2 | 6-9pm Weymouth Center 555 East Connecticut Avenue Southern Pines 910.692.6261 | weymouthcenter.org Carols at Weymouth December 3 | 5:30-7:30pm Weymouth Center 555 East Connecticut Avenue Southern Pines 910.692.6261 | weymouthcenter.org Weymouth Christmas House Tour Dates December 3-5 | 10am-3pm December 6 | 1-4pm Weymouth Center 555 East Connecticut Avenue Southern Pines 910.692.6261 | weymouthcenter.org

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Reindeer Fun Run December 5 | 9am Downtown Aberdeen 910.693.3045 | reindeerfunrun.com Candlelight Tour December 5 | 7-9pm Weymouth Center 555 East Connecticut Avenue Southern Pines 910.692.6261 | weymouthcenter.org BOLSHOI BALLET via Satellite ‘LADY OF THE CAMELIAS’ December 6 | 1pm Sunrise Theater Tickets $25 250 NW Broad | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com A Baroque Christmas with The North Carolina Symphony December 6 | 7:30pm Lee Auditorium at Pinecrest High School 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | Southern Pines 919.733.2750 | ncsymphony.org MAGGIE SMITH HOLIDAY FLOWER ARRANGING December 8 | 10am-12pm Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882 The 29th Annual Sandhills Teen Challenge Christmas Banquet December 10-12 | 6:30pm Sandhills Teen Challenge Center 444 Farm Life School Road | Carthage The cost is $75 per table of 8 people or $10 per person. Adults only please.

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Sandhills Photo Club Member Christmas Party December 14 The O’Neal School 3300 Airport Road | Southern Pines sandhillsphotoclub.org Cirque Musica Holiday Spectacular with The North Carolina Symphony December 18 | 8pm December 19 | 3pm & 8pm Meymandi Concert Hall at Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts 2 E. South Street | Raleigh 919.733.2750 | www.ncsymphony.org BOLSHOI BALLET via Satellite ‘THE NUTCRACKER’ December 20 | 1pm Sunrise Theater Tickets $25 250 NW Broad | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com

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your guide to the most stress-free H o l i d ay

EVER b y H e at h e r M a l l o r y and Adam Sobsey

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‘Tis the season of giving: thanks, gifts, charity – and parties. With the holidays comes the joyful conviviality of opening our doors to our friends and colleagues, and to the wider circles in which we travel throughout the year. This is itself a form of thanksgiving: gratitude for all the company we keep in life, from the office to the outdoors, confidantes to casual acquaintances.

The paradox of hosting parties, especially at the holidays, is that party planning and hosting can stress the host – and if the host isn’t having a good time, no one else will. We gathered ideas and thoughts from professionals in the business of hospitality, from décor to drink, on how to make your party the kind that people – including you – will be excited for every year.

PLANNING

The best way to reduce stress is by planning ahead – “make a timeline and a checklist,” says Deborah Davis, the impresario behind Social Butterfly Events (www.socialbutterflyusa.com). Send invitations early. “Although evites have become very popular,” says John Griffin of ThemeWorks (www.facebook. com/ThemeWorksCreative), a Raleigh mecca for party and event services and furnishings, “nothing beats receiving an invitation in the mail.”

If you’re unsure about party size, observe a trusty axiom: “Have a better party and fewer guests,” Davis says. If you are throwing a larger party, you may want to consider hiring an event planner. They won’t necessarily break the bank, conserving your budget for food, drink and décor while freeing you from many burdens. “Three hundred dollars is probably the most you’d need to spend,” Davis says.

THEME AND DÉCOR

Although professional opinions differed on some of the finer points, nearly all of them had this piece of advice for throwing a great party: keep it simple.

“I find myself easily stressed when entertaining at home,” Griffin says. “Don’t overthink it. Decorations can be as simple as a beautiful wreath on the door and a decorated Christmas tree in your home.”

If you’re not using traditional seasonal decorations (e.g. Christmas or Chanukah), design

still needn’t be complicated, nor should it be: too much fuss makes for a convoluted party. Event planner Grace Beason (www.graceleisureevents. com) recommends “to think about your house and how it flows, and find a single element that ties it all together. It could be as simple as gold accents everywhere, even gold linens and flatware.” She also recommends CE Rental for their “really special, spectacular linens. They’re a really nice touch, and you don’t have to have as much floral décor.”

You’ll probably want some flowers, though, and The English Garden, Fresh Affairs, Kelly Odom, and The Watered Garden all come highly recommended. “You can also call people from your local garden club,” Deborah Davis says.

“They love making arrangements.” And there’s plenty of flora right in our backyards. “I like North Carolina’s natural greenery,” says Aldena Frye, whose Aldena Frye Floral and Event Design (www.aldenafryeflorist.com) is just outside Pinehurst.

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“We use magnolia, camellia, nandina. I also like vegetables and fruits. During the holidays I use a lot of red pears, and preserved dried oranges. You can brush them with a little bit of gold if you like.

And of course, being in the middle of pine country, we use a lot of pine.”

“If you want to do more décor using in-depth props,” Grace Beason says, “ThemeWorks is great.

If you want to create a winter wonderland in your house, they have everything. For something more chic and elegant, they can rent you a free-standing mahogany bar.” No matter what kind of bar you use, ThemeWorks’ Griffin advises “having it set up in one area and food set up in another. That allows guests to mix and mingle more naturally, and it seems to make the gathering more social and relaxed.”

It’s easy to overlook a simple but important design element: lighting. David Watson, the owner of Get Lit (getlitspecialeventlighting.com), says: “If you’re going to spend hundreds of dollars on décor, flower arrangements and a holiday cake that’s a work of art, spend $50 on lighting so you can see it.”

Watson also suggests thinking about your home’s exterior – not just lighting it, but partying on it. “During the holidays in North Carolina,” he says, “it’s often warm enough to host a party outdoors.” (Rented heat lamps can compensate for colder temperatures.) “Often we’ll upwash trees in different colors, sometimes in blue that resembles winter light. Sometimes we’ll do the whole house. We can even make it snow with our little bubble machines.”

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But do make sure you have plenty of candles – “you can’t go wrong with candles,” Griffin says.

Frye adds: “I believe candlelight is the best thing in the world. Well, maybe a martini is better, but candlelight is second-best.”

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

“If you get the food and drink right,” Beason says, “everything else tends to be okay.” For a smaller party, you can provide your own food, but Griffin suggests sticking mostly with “foods that are purchased ready to serve: cheese, nuts, and so on.”

Beason agrees. “Around the holidays,” she says, no matter their usual diets, “people will eat cheese all night, especially specialty cheeses.” (But be wary of raw vegetables, which tend to be left largely uneaten. Try grilled or roasted vegetables instead, which are more flavorful and partake of seasonal produce like winter squash.)

For any larger gathering, “find a great local caterer,” Beason advises. Among the many advantages to working with caterers – aside from relieving the host of the responsibility, which includes cleaning up the kitchen afterward – is that they can easily accommodate any level of cuisine and formality (and dietary restrictions), from simply dropping off food for you to lay out yourself to serving a fully staffed, multi-course, formal dinner.

Most parties fall somewhere in-between. “I find that people seem to enjoy a party more if it’s not a sit-down dinner,” Griffin says. The preference is for

bite-sized foods that guests can eat while standing.

Especially canapes that incorporate a “higher level of ingredients,” says Morgan Hawk, the Catering Director at Elliotts Catering Company in Pinehurst.

For the holidays, Chef Mark Elliott “has mastered miniaturizing everything,” Hawk says. “We make truffle macaroni with bordelaise and bacon on a spoon, a filet of beef with hollandaise on a skewer, and a mini lobster-loaded baked potato.” Elliotts is committed to local food – a form of thanksgiving for the bounty all around us. “I’m always pushing local meats,” she says. Elliots’ mantra, “Always be fresh,” applies to décor and theme as much as it does to food, Hawk adds.

For beverages, hot punch makes sense for both seasonality and convenience (you can make it well ahead of time). Holiday parties are also great settings for wines that “offer voluptuous personalities and generous perfumes,” says Mic Finger of Wine Authorities (www.wineauthorities. com). His top pick is a Loire Valley Viognier, “De Butte en Blanc,” by Domaine Robert Serol. At just $11.99, it fits the party-giving bill: at the holidays, fine wine and liquor are unnecessary; drink is more an accessory to fun than serious sipping. On that note, Finger also suggested an economical but good-quality three-liter box (equivalent to four bottles) of Chinon Rouge by Domaine Gouron.

The Cabernet Franc-based wine is flavorful and intense but “isn’t massively full-bodied,” Finger says, making it easier on the palate and head (and better with finger foods) as the night goes on. And it’s good for parties because it can be decanted into attractive serving vessels of your choice.

Finger also suggested hard cider, whose fall flavors complement the season – especially pear ciders like Eric Bordelet’s, and the Poiré Domfront from Pacory: “a highly versatile, clean, refreshing crowd-pleaser,” Finger says. Ciders are also lower in alcohol, which tempers the more freewheeling drinking environment of the holidays.

Two ways to control that environment are to forgo hard liquor and to hire a bartender: “It’s not a big expense, and it’s so nice to have,” Davis says – a gracious and elegant service touch. “A bartender can also keep the beverage area neat and stocked,” Griffin adds.” If you’re having a long party, Davis recommends offering alternative transportation via a car service, perhaps even hiring students as drivers.

“You want your guests to know that they can enjoy

and leave your house without any problems.” (One note: if you do serve liquor, caterers aren’t licensed to sell it, although they can serve it; many have specialty cocktail recipes, which they can mix from liquor you purchase. You might also hire a company like Pour Bar Services (www.pourbarservices. com), which provides everything from purchase to pouring – and liability insurance coverage, as well.)

Hiring service staff is strongly encouraged.

“Your guests like to enjoy you without you running around all the time,” says Kelli March, the Catering Director at Catering By Design in Cary. All good caterers will have a trained, unobtrusive staff that can give the entire night a pleasantly heightened, soigné feel.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Most professionals agreed that entertainment generally isn’t necessary at the holidays. For example, “Live music is often distracting,” Griffin says. If you’d like to add that touch, Davis recommends finding some “talented high school seniors who could play as a duo or a quartet before the dinner hour.” Generally, recorded music, played at lower volumes, suffices.

Cheerful company and the high spirits of the season are the best entertainment and refreshment.

That’s a good way to approach the entire party, from music to munchies to mistletoe. Molly Rohde, of Seaboard Studio 123 in Raleigh, calls herself “the goto girl for event planners, decorators and style mavens all over the state of North Carolina.”She recalls a major setback before a holiday dinner party years ago: “The Christmas tree fell over, half an hour before everybody came,” she says. “We just left it on the floor.” But how to distract guests from such a catastrophe? She laughs and says, “Pour ‘em a drink.”

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For nearly everyone, dessert

at the holidays means pumpkin and apple pie, Buche de Noel, and other traditional sweets that evoke the spirit and senses of the season. Probably every holiday table should feature at least one of these, without too much experimentation.

Nonetheless, Americans are nothing if not inventors and explorers.Thanksgiving commemorates our intrepidity nearly as much as it celebrates our gratitude. We asked local professionals for holiday dessert ideas off the beaten path. Not surprisingly, those paths led most of them right back home.

Fiona McKenzie, whose Sweet Fi’s Cakes specializes in wedding cakes, is from Australia, where “we’re in the middle of summer at Christmastime.”

Her Down Under upbringing partook of holiday food traditions far from ours, and as diverse: the English Commonwealth, the produce of the Southern Hemisphere, and even Russia.

“Steamed plum pudding is the quintessential holiday dessert,” McKenzie declares. “It will stick with me till the day I die.” Her grandmother used

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to make this rich, deep, elaborate confection that takes two days to make, is topped with a crème anglaise, and involves copious brandy for soaking and flambéing (an additional wow factor at the table). “As kids we would only get a sliver because it’s chock full of brandy,” McKenzie recalls fondly.

McKenzie’s other traditional Christmas dessert is simpler and lighter: a pavlova. This meringue-based confection has New Zealand origins, invented there in 1926 in honor of touring Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. It remains a holiday tradition in Australia, too. A pavlova is “egg whites beaten into submission,” McKenzie says, and then baked. Once it cools – crunchy outside and soft inside – it’s topped with whipped cream and tropical fruit. (You can, of course, use any fruit you like. Cranberries would give the dish a beautiful red-and-white look for winter.)

“We are the sum of our experiences,” McKenzie says, and the steamed plum pudding and the pavlova are essential parts of hers. “If I had to pick one, I’d probably get up and walk away.”

At The Bakehouse in Aberdeen, owner Martin Brunner says the yule log is their holiday bestseller, but get him talking about his favorites and he, like McKenzie, is back home. In 1989, the Brunners immigrated to the US from Austria, where they had a bakeshop founded by Brunner’s grandfather in 1948.

They brought their Austrian baking traditions with them, such as Austrian Christmas cookies, including a very traditional linzer, a vanilla horn, and a hazelnut cookie that evokes for Brunner the hazelnut tree that grew outside his family’s house in Austria when he was a child.

The recipes, like McKenzie’s, come straight from Brunner’s grandmother (his mother still works in the shop). At Christmastime, Brunner says his father Kurt emerges from retirement to bake 500 pounds of cookies, four handmade pounds at a time – “you can’t really kick him out,” Martin says, laughing. In his own way, baking those cookies in the family shop is Kurt’s way of coming home for the holidays.

As for Martin, he’s been known to pop a few stray rum balls in his mouth while boxing up the cookie assortment in the Brunners’ handmade holiday boxes. As he and McKenzie prove, sneaking a nip is a childhood holiday tradition, too.

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Relative

Ease Making Peace with Family Holidays

by J E N N I H A RT

In families already tested by poor communication, unrealistic expectations or strained finances, the holiday vortex can feel like the place where joy goes to die. No one is immune: New couples with competing in-laws, new parents whose baby is in high demand for cuddling, and families changed by separation or divorce all must navigate the season with its heady hopes for celebration and connection.

By the time a conflict surfaces, family members often find that tensions have been simmering for a long time, sometimes years. One way to avoid discord is to head off hurt feelings before they start.

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Traditions

Adina Middleman is a Raleigh therapist who advises couples to be proactive with one another at least several months in advance of family gatherings and communicate their holiday plans to other family members ahead of time. “I often say expectations are the nemesis of every relationship,” says Middleman, a licensed clinical social worker with New Hope Counseling. “This forward planning may require juggling time spent between families, deciding how to honor religious aspects of the holiday if applicable, and discussing food traditions.” In her practice, she sees conflicts arise when these issues are not discussed and the couple’s holiday traditions differ from those of the “first family,” or the family of origin.

Middleman says one member of a couple may compromise his or her beliefs or traditions and begin to feel resentful. “We all know resentment can lead to arguments and emotional disconnection between couples,” she says. She suggests couples discuss priorities to decide which first family traditions mean the most and which can be compromised.

Couples should also make their own traditions and

remember to set aside time devoted to their new family at some point during the holidays.

Alicia (last name withheld by request) is a Cary wife and mother of three who says her marriage was so strained by her in-laws that there were a few years when only her husband was invited to visit his parents’ home at the holidays. “I let it go too far, and so did he, until every time we tried to fix the damage, it only made things worse,” she says. Alicia got the impression early on that her husband’s parents didn’t welcome her or her two children from a previous relationship. “My daughters were excluded from activities the other grandchildren had planned for them,” she remembers. Only later did she realize there were misunderstandings on both sides that could have been handled differently. Alicia says her relationship with her mother-in-law can still be prickly at times, but over the years, her daughters have enjoyed a loving relationship with their grandparents. The couple has since had another child – a son – and holidays with family are much more enjoyable than in those early years.

For Alicia’s family, relocating to North Carolina from her husband’s hometown in New Jersey was the catalyst that led to healthier interactions with his parents.

“People talk about boundaries, and I never understood what that meant exactly, but living hundreds of miles apart forced everyone to be on their best behavior and more thoughtful about how we treated each other,” she says. Ultimately, Alicia admits she and her husband “had some growing up to do,” and that marriage counseling, which they sought for other reasons, helped them find more effective ways of communicating and managing conflict. Alicia says she’s looking forward to seeing her in-laws and their extended family at Christmas. “I never thought I would say that, but the kids are excited, and so am I,” she says.

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Timing

When it comes to holiday celebrations, the timing of events can vary greatly between families of origin, even when members of a couple are of the same faith and have somewhat similar traditions. What time is the Thanksgiving meal served? When are presents exchanged? Which holiday service will we attend? When are grandparents invited over? Middleman recommends couples iron out all these items in advance. Enter event details and times in a calendar accessible to everyone in the family to reduce miscommunication.

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Finances

Couples who are at odds over spending priorities throughout the year are likely to find those stresses magnified at the holidays. Middleman recommends couples discuss expectations and budgets in advance.

Spending on gifts is one consideration, but couples should also factor in the expense of travel when visiting family and friends, as well as food and beverages when hosting a party. “Discuss expectations for gifts,” she says. “Some families purchase gifts for each family member, while others draw names and buy fewer presents. Do you expect ‘big ticket’ items to be exchanged, or are gifts not important to you at all?

Communicate ahead of time, because no one wants to fight about money during the holidays.”

Families with older children may want to consider a weekend trip or even a local family outing in lieu of individual presents. Memories of fun times together can be more meaningful – and more economical – than purchasing multiple gifts for each member of the family.

Separation, Divorce, Stepfamilies

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needs remain largely unchanged regardless of the changes in the family. “They still have strong needs for attention, love, entertainment and belonging during the holidays,” he says. “Traditions will change after divorce, but focusing on the child’s core needs and remaining flexible will make the transition easier to navigate.”

Dr. Mackey recommends parents think of creating stepfamilies as a process, not a single event.

“With time, good communication, and love, new family members will learn to peacefully co-exist.

Relationships and traditions are never replaced. The lost ones are mourned (for however long it takes), and new and different ones are formed,” he says.

In his experience, Mackey finds that adequate attention is the one need that children most often report is missing during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. With parties to plan, cookies to bake, errands to run, and other commitments, he says parents should be mindful that a child’s needs for attention are constant and may actually increase during the holidays. He adds that parents and stepparents should be patient with children as they adjust to new situations. Although children’s behavior and attitudes may seem to change quickly as they get used to new adults in their lives, deeper emotions and expectations can take longer to catch up. But there is reason to remain hopeful. “There is no set number of people they can care about, become attached to, or allow into their lives,” says Mackey. “Children have unlimited room in their hearts for love.”

An Uncluttered

Christmas Giving thoughtful gifts without giving stuff by corbie hill

My name is Corbie Hill and I have enough stuff.

In the interests of honesty, there are always other things I want, sure – another guitar or two, a slightly larger house, a Star Trek uniform for every day of the week (don’t judge) – but I don’t actually need anything. So when Christmas comes around and people inevitably ask me what I want, I never have an answer.

I’m an adult. I have enough stuff. Considering the long post-Christmas lines at stores’ return counters, I get the feeling I’m not alone. What I do want, though, is experiences. If you want to get me something, get me a memory that’ll stay with me indefinitely – I can’t think of a finer gift. So if you’re like me, or if you’re figuring out Christmas gifts for people like me, maybe this is the way to go.

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Dinner party

You do know how to cook, don’t you? No matter, even if you don’t you can throw a memorable dinner party – something your friends will remember and probably get more satisfaction out of than a scented candle or a winter shirt that you hope is the right size. Some people like small get-togethers with just two families, while others gravitate toward bustling parties, so you may have to throw more than one.

Why not, though? Your friends and family are worth it – and good food is, too.

Back to the matter of cooking, then: if you’re not all that proficient in the kitchen, you can make it a potluck. Tell your guests that the party is your gift to them and that they shouldn’t feel obligated to give you anything in return – just bring a dish. If you love to cook and would like total control over what comes out of your kitchen (it’s okay, I’m that way, too), then that’s fine – friends who want to contribute can always bring drinks, games, or music.

Favorite book extended loan

You do have a favorite book, don’t you? I’ve been delving into nonfiction lately – Jon Krakauer, John Cleese and Anne Garrels have all written rewarding books, as I see it – but I find myself getting to the end of one of these and not having anyone to discuss it with! This was a real shame with Norman Ollestad’s Crazy For the Storm – I’m still looking for someone who will talk about that one with me.

This Christmas, make a list of friends and family members, then go through your bookshelves and match books to people – the folks you know and love, after all, deserve reading material you know and love. Loan the book out, no strings attached.

Once it’s been read, meet up and discuss it!

Take a Trip

Go and do! Even if you and a friend split the expense of going somewhere you’ve always wanted to go, it can still be the way you celebrate the holidays – it can still be a gift.

Matching tattoos

No, scratch that – it’s a horrible idea.

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Concerts

Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill boast world-class entertainment, both on weekdays and weekends.

Over the course of November and December, Daryl Hall and John Oates and John Prine play DPAC in Durham, the North Carolina Symphony presents Beethoven’s 8th and Rachmaninoffs’ Symphony No. 2 in Raleigh, and Chapel Hill’s legendary, longstanding Red Clay Ramblers play three successive nights at the Cat’s Cradle Back Room in Carrboro! In the heart of Pinehurst, the Village Chapel’s free Christmas Concert is December 6th at 4pm and features traditional carols, the sixmovement Christmas Cantata, and a piece Village Chapel Director of Music Stephen Gourley wrote specifically for the concert.

So even if there’s a drive involved, pick a friend or two and go see a concert together. If you’re in a position to cover everyone’s tickets, go for it, but don’t feel obligated – just suggesting it and offering to drive may be enough.

Childsit

Have friends with young kids? Give them a night out. Simply offering to watch their children for a few hours so they can go out to eat, catch a movie, or simply sit and stare blankly into space is a gift they won’t soon forget. Got friends with dogs?

Offer to keep their friendly beasts for a weekend so they can go out of town without worrying about a kennel or paid pet sitter.

Learn to ride, learn to climb, learn to skydive... skydive?

Learn a new skill with a friend, with your spouse, or with anyone you enjoy spending time with.

The Sandhills is horse country, so learn to ride!

Morrisville has the Triangle Rock Club, so learn to climb! Take piano lessons together, or something along those lines. These things can seem less daunting with a friend, after all.

Pinehurst magazine’s

holiday gift guide

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01. Ice Chiller Wine Bottle Mold $25.99 The Village Wine Shop Easy to make, perfect for holiday entertaining.

02. Collectible Santa

by Santa’s Workshop $160 The Potpourri Santa Riding his Sleigh.

03. Liquid Metal Bracelets $100-300 Framer’s Cottage Assorted colors and styles,

by Sergio Gutierrez.

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04. Yellow Porcelain Gawain $20 Wood Element Acupuncture & Tea 220 ml tea brewing vessel, many designs and imported tea.

05. Green Leather Handbag $250 Le Feme Chateau Suede moc croc leather handbag, large shoulder bag.

06. Dubarry Galway Boot $350 Barn Door Consignment The Dubarry Galway Boot is the original waterproof, breathable boot from Dubarry. It’s the perfect all-purpose outdoor footwear for any weather.

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07. Vintage Louis Vuitton Bag Prices Vary Monkee’s of the Pines A touch of elegance that is classic & chic for those with impeccable taste!

Monkee’s of the Pines carries a variety of luxury vintage Louis Vuitton styles that every woman desires.

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08. Galatea Pearl Necklace $1,375 Gemma Gallery Hand-carved Tahitian black pearl and diamond necklace in 14k yellow gold.

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09. The McKenzie Apron $65-80 The McKenzie Apron Available at Triangle Wine Company.

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10. Olive Oil Boxed Set $38 Pinehurst Olive Oil Co. Our best seller gift set is filled with a bottle of tuscan herb olive oil and 18 year aged traditional balsamic; beautifully packaged in a green box decorated with festive bows that is sure to get you into the Christmas spirit!

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11. Eye Doctor $125 The Laser Institute of Pinehurst Replenish the look of damaged, thinning skin around the eyes with this high potency eye serum.

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12. Petit Pehr Noah’s Ark Organic Crib Blanket $68 Bump and Baby Modern crib blanket, gender neutral, exquisitely soft.

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13. Plantation Shutters Prices available upon request ShutterCrafters / Blind Pros Custom plantation shutters are available in nearly any size and shape.

They are an excellent choice for privacy and sunlight control in your home.

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14. Collectible Santa

by Santa’s Workshop $46 The Potpourri I’d Rather be Playing Golf.

15. Maps by A. Jaffe Collection $125-$2,495 Diamonds Direct Crabtree Custom-made pieces available in necklaces, bracelets or cufflinks that can be engraved with any location in the world – a diamond marks the spot of a favorite memory!

16. Turqoise Beads $120 CoolSweats Long length, Why Knot style lightweight colorful plastic – turquoise – with swirls that kind of look like spin art. Highlighted with a vintage tortoise shell bauble. Wear it long or doubled. Anyway or anywhere you wear it, it’s going to brighten your look. Also available in a lilac shade.

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17. Scarf with Fringe Detail $65 Morgan Miller Ahujasons 100% wool, made in India.

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18. Signature Body and Bath Gift Set $24 The Village Fox Indulge in our signature blend of skin and hair products. Gift set includes goat milk soap, lotion, shampoo & conditioner. Great stocking stuffer!

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19. 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe Convertible Z51 2LT Starting at $74,850 Hendrick Auto Mall The perfect combination of beautiful design, brilliant engineering and precision performance. Every element of the 2016 Stingray makes it the quickest, most powerful, most refined Stingray ever made. Test drive one today!

20. Bone China Fox Mug $24 Framer’s Cottage A portion of the sale of this item has been donated to support autism awareness.

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FOOD & DRINK Dugans Pub Give the gift of traditional Irish fare. Dugans Pub is a full-service restaurant and pub located in historic Pinehurst Village with the largest selections of import drafts and single malt scotches in Pinehurst.

Thai Orchid Gift the gift of authentic Thai food. With excellent service and a wondeful atmosphere, Thai Orchid is a must-dine this holiday season. filly & colt’s restaurant As the social centerpiece of Longleaf Golf and Family Club, Filly & Colt’s combines fresh, local fare with a casual dining atmosphere steeped in the rich equestrian history of this legendary property. Open to the public!

Ironwood Nestled in the heart of the pines – come experience warm, welcoming

21. Medi CEP Progressive Run Socks $60/pair Raleigh Vein And Laser Center Not just for runners! These compression therapy socks put a bounce in your step.

Many styles and colors available.

service and trend-setting American cuisine. Chef ’s seasonal menus are combined with local flavors and many ingredients from our own gardens. Recent recipient of five ‘Best of The Pines’ awards, including favorite overall dining experience. Proudly the only restaurant in town serving Certified Angus Beef ®. You can taste the difference!

HEALTH & BEAUTY Massage Envy Enjoy the gift of a massage or facial this holiday season. There are many positive aspects to receiving these treatments on an ongoing basis, and with the busy lives we lead, we can all benefit from a little stress management.

HOUSE & HOME COLONY SHADE Locally owned for 20 years.

We provide and install all types

of window coverings and closet systems in both wire and wood. We live our promise – “Large enough to serve you, but small enough to care.” ~ Diane & Dean Robinson

OUTDOORS OUTDOOR EXPEDITIONS USA Fun, safe and affordable, Outdoor Expeditions USA Fishing Trip for two gift cards are perfect for the outdoorsman on your gift list.

Choose between 4-hour or 6-hour trips on Harris, Jordan or Falls Lakes.

TRAVEL

Visit NC Concierge Give the gift of travel this year – it’s meaningful, it’s fun and it’s easy! Help create memories for friends & families with a $100 gift certificate toward an amazing trip in our state. To learn more call 919.302.0574 or email maryesther@visitncconcierge.com. (www.visitncconcierge.com) Pinehurstmagazine.com 43

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Originally settled in the 1760s by predominantly Highland Scots and English immigrants, the Sandhills area developed slowly until the railroad was built in the mid-nineteenth century and changed everything. Pine trees became a cash crop that was shipped away as lumber, and travelers on the railroad between the North and Florida discovered Southern Pines as a convenient stopping point.

In 1884, John T. Patrick paid $1,265 for 675 acres of land and began forming the town of Southern Pines. The curse of sandy soil that kept farming to a minimum was the blessing for the Sandhills’ climate, and Patrick had a dream for the town to become a health resort. Southern Pines quickly grew into a vibrant and prosperous community and became a favorite winter resort for Northerners.

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Carriages, Christmas Carolers, 1946

Several years later, in 1895, Boston soda fountain magnate James Walker Tufts purchased 500 acres and hired the landscape architect firm of Frederick Law Olmstead to do the city planning for Pinehurst (originally dubbed Tuftstown).

From the start, his vision was to build a “health resort for people of modest means”.

That same year Pinehurst Race Track was established, exactly 100 years ago in 1915, and the two key sporting traditions of the area were set.

Though the Sandhills area had finally come of age, a war in Europe was underway and the rest of the country was a wildly different place. The news outside of Moore County was filled with events that would seem outlandish if reported today. In Raleigh that November, the News & Observer office burned, taking most of a city block with it; in New York President Woodrow Wilson hit and injured a small child with his car and evidently shrugged it off; and in Asheville, eight young women were charged with dressing up in men’s clothing over Halloween and ordered by the judge to wear skirts “for the balance of their natural lives.”

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toys and candy, and the sparkling Christmas tree groaned under the weight of the many presents,” Thaddeus Cheatham, minister of Pinehurst’s Village Chapel at the time, wrote on January 1st, 1916 in The Pinehurst Outlook, the area paper of record from 1897-1923. “A most interesting program of songs and recitations was given by the children of the village, and the large audience joined in.” By virtue of the Outlook’s compulsive detail – particularly when social matters are concerned – the name of the man playing Santa that year is preserved, even a hundred years later: Carolina Hotel employee Samuel Lacks, who had worked there since the turn of the century, donned the red suit and white beard.

As for adult festivities Christmas night, the dance at Pinehurst Resort featured a massive, regularly frequented punch bowl and ran late: “We cannot conscientiously state just when it came to an end, for we weren’t there at the time.

However, it was all over when we came down for breakfast.” Guests got gag gifts, too: the author, a self-proclaimed “thirsty man,” was given a camel (likely not a real one, though the story never specifies...). After the kids’ heartwarming Santa visit and Annie Oakley’s trick-shot

The Carolina Hotel

Santa golfing

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exhibition on Christmas Eve, the adults were prepared to let their hair down and simply enjoy Christmas, and they did.

Yet the war in Europe and anxiety over the United States’ tenuous neutrality still cast a pall.

That Christmas the Outlook ran a story about local efforts to assist in a war should the US get involved – a Ford chassis had been outfitted with a machine gun belonging to the Sandhill Machine Gun Battery (Machine Gun Batteries were essentially rural militia organizations).

In a test of its mobility, this armed motorcar was driven around New York State; the war in Europe was not explicitly mentioned in the story, though it hung in the air. “Assume that this car represented a battery of eight guns ... that the country had been invaded and the command ordered to move to New York City as rapidly as possible,” the story goes. “The nation is short on machine guns.” The US was barreling inexorably toward war, yet all was blissfully peaceful and quiet in Moore County, a refuge then as today for those seeking sanctuary and relaxation.

Santa Claus Leaving The Carolina Hotel in a Carriage

Snow Scene, The Village Chapel, 1954

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The Festival

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Feasting and Frolicking – for the Kids

By Carol Wills Photos courtesy of the Sandhills Children’s Center

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In the enchanting little town of Southern Pines is a five-star child care center known as Sandhills Children’s Center. Teresa Copper, the Director of Events and Community Relations for the Center, is preparing for this year’s Festival of Trees, the annual fundraiser that allows designers from everywhere, and with all kinds of creative ideas, to decorate evergreen trees with their donations of ornaments, lights and gifts.

Some garden clubs sponsor a “tablescape”. Other local organizations, as well as mother/daughter teams, joyfully sponsor a tree that expresses the holiday season as they see it.

This year’s festival takes place at The Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst, and will begin on Wednesday, November 18th, and run through Sunday, November 22nd. This will be the 19th year in a row since the festivals began, and it promises to be bigger and better than any that have gone before. Last year there were 93 trees on display, as well as gift baskets, tree skirts, wreaths and gingerbread houses. Over 11,000 people attended last year’s festival, and Copper expects even more this year. “It’s neat when you walk into the rooms

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and realize that everything on the trees has been donated,” says Copper. She expects that one tree in particular will catch the children’s eyes. It will be decorated with Power Rangers donated by the company that makes them.

You may wonder at the bounty of this joyous occasion, but the Sandhills Children’s Center deserves every bit of this enthusiasm. It’s a private, non-profit day school for children from six weeks to five years old, offering an inclusive child development program for children with and without special needs. At the Center, special educators administer therapy-oriented instruction, skilled child care and medical support services to help each child achieve a high level of selfsufficiency. No child is denied services due to their family’s economic status. Sandhills Children Center is committed to building financial support for services through contracts with state- and areaoperated programs and the development of local public and private resources. The Festival of Trees is both a gift to the community and an opportunity for the community to respond generously from the heart to support the child center’s mission.

Jean Kovach

Photo by Dolores Muller

Photo by Dolores Muller Photo by Dolores Muller

“Everybody can find something to come to during our five-day festival,” says Copper, who has been heading up the Festival of Trees since 2006.

She says that there will be more than 50 vendors this year at Festival Marketplace, who will be displaying their pottery, paintings, photography, handmade signs and other specialties. Be there early to see Jean Kovach’s handmade Santas and snowmen – she invariably sells out and has to take orders. Take note: Bacco Selections LLC, a national importer of fine wines, will be presenting a wine tree (bottles of wine on a tree-shaped stand) that you may bid on. And Southern Pines’ Sly Fox Gastropub, whose chef/ owner Mark Elliott is originally from England, will be sponsoring a beer tree, as well.

In addition to the vendors and decorated trees, there will be musical entertainment and dancers, as well as a silent auction. The children from one of the Center’s classrooms will be singing for the official tree lighting on Wednesday morning at 10:15am.

Scott Mason, WRAL’s Tarheel Traveler, will be the Master of Ceremonies for the tree lighting.

On Wednesday evening from 6-8pm, at Girls’ Night Out, the popular McKenzie Brothers Band will be providing their special brand of musical entertainment. The band, whose hometown is Pinehurst, describe their style as “eclectic hillbilly.”

They’ll definitely have you patting your foot.

On Friday from 6-8pm, the Jingle Bell Jam will feature live music with acoustic guitarist and vocalist Tom Compa, whose latest song, This Old Sage, is a plea for world peace. Then Saturday from 6-8pm, attendees who purchase a tasting glass ($10) will be treated to the Bacco Selections Wine Tasting. And finally, on Sunday, from 10am-4pm, you’ll want to check out the Festival Marketplace, with its variety of artisans and vendors. You can enjoy their artistry while getting a leg up on your Christmas shopping.

Admission to the Festival of Trees is any monetary contribution at the door, and all are invited to consider volunteering or sponsoring a tree. For detailed information, including directions on how to get there, check their website: www.FestivalofTrees.org.

For further information, contact Teresa Copper at the Center at tcopper@sandhillschildrenscenter.org or call 910-692-3323. See you there!

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SEAGROVE

POTTERY FESTIVAL

by Adam Sobsey

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Although the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, in Southern Pines, houses a museum and a performance space, the venerable Boyd estate still feels homey, comfortable and unfussy. The vintage furniture is well-suited to the old rooms, but it’s meant to be used: there are few showpieces. The old wood floors proudly show their years of wear. Outside, the gardens are lovingly cared for, but they’re inviting and accessible, even modest, and in tune with their natural surroundings.

The only signs of deliberate preservation and precious objects are the glassed-in shelves you’ll see on some the house’s landings. What’s protected behind the glass is generally not precious metals or jewels or priceless memorabilia: It’s North Carolina pottery. This is our state’s richest material treasure: our collective heirloom, our highest art.

And it is an ancient, continuous and cyclical art: pottery was made here in precolonial times

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Seagrove Stoneware & Cindy Neef Photo by Lindsey Lambert

by American Indians; later, European settlers brought their own techniques to the area; now, the art form is once again indigenous as well as international, practiced by a modern breed of native North Carolinians as well as potters who have moved to the clay-yielding heart of the state in order to practice their craft in a thriving community. Seagrove, North Carolina, just up the road from the Sandhills near Uwharrie National Forest, is both the cradle and the mecca of the Tar Heel art form.

In other words, North Carolina pottery does not just live behind glass. It is alive and well and accessible, especially in Moore County – and especially in this autumn season. The eighth annual Seagrove Pottery Celebration takes place November 20th-22nd at Luck’s Cannery. Seagrove proudly proclaims itself “the country’s largest community of potters,” and the yearly Celebration is their most notable public gathering.

From the Ground Up & Levi Mahan Pottery Photo by Lindsey Lambert

Photo by Celebration of Seagrove Potters

Over 100 potters from 55 different shops will be on hand selling their work. The festival opens with a Friday night gala, then continues with an all-day bazaar on Saturday and Sunday. There is a full slate of additional attractions, from pottery demonstrations to education and historical talks and a silent auction, along with food trucks and activities for kids.

The Celebration is not only a red-letter date on our annual calendar, it’s also an essential part of the Moore County holiday season: a great place to buy locally-made gifts, of course, and get the jump on Black Friday. It’s also a chance to meet the people who make those gifts by hand – the closest folks we have to Santa’s elves, perhaps. Out of the humble North Carolina clay they make their wonders.

Adepts of North Carolina pottery – and those who’d like to be – will want to register for the opening-night gala on Friday, November 20th. The event runs from 6-9pm, with a catered reception and live music. Attendees can meet many of Seagrove’s potters, and the gala also offers attendees a chance to participate in the exciting, one-of-a-kind “collaborative auction.” This special event, held just once a year, pairs Seagrove potters together to make joint pieces specifically for (and donated to) the auction. Not only the work, but the partnerships, are unique. (Absentee bidders may participate online. Find images of the collaborative auction pieces, and absentee bidding procedures, at www.discoverseagrove.com.)

Tickets for the gala are $45, which includes

admission to the Saturday and Sunday general Celebration. Admission to either Saturday or Sunday alone is $5 per day.

On Saturday, November 21st, the Celebration runs from 9am-5pm. Saturday features a second auction, from 1-3pm; this one is a silent auction of a wide variety of pottery by Seagrove artists.

Booths will of course also be open, selling artists’ work, and there will be plenty of activity and entertainment besides the auction and booths, including demonstrations and hands-on activities for kids. Most of Seagrove’s pottery shops around town will be open as well, making this not merely a single-venue event, but a town-wide festival.

The Celebration continues on Sunday from 10am-4pm.

A final detail: You may have wondered why the town itself, which is nowhere near the coast, is called Seagrove. It has nothing to do with the sea and everything to do with the railroad – and, as it happens, a felicitous mistake. Seagrove was named for a railroad official named Edwin Seagraves, who was credited with routing the tracks through the area. When it was time to put up a sign, there wasn’t room for the final “s,” and the painter misspelled the name as Seagrove instead of Seagrave. Of such accidents is history made, and the name of our most cherished pottery born.

The Celebration of Seagrove Potters runs November 20th-22nd at Luck’s Cannery in Seagrove. For more information, visit www.discoverseagrove.org.

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Moore County Hounds celebrates tradition as it adapts to change.

by Adam Sobsey | Photography by Bobhebertphoto.com

There’s something very reassuring about annual traditions that hardly change. That’s why Thanksgiving Day, with its centuries-old food tradition, is the perfect day for the Blessing of the Hounds. If you bring a tailgate breakfast to Buchan Field in Southern Pines at 10am on Thanksgiving morning, you’ll see Moore County Hounds perform this ancient rite, which has roots in the Middle Ages with St. Hubert, the Patron Saint of Hunters.

The Blessing of the Hounds, with about 100 riders and 500 spectators expected, is the sport’s

opening day, so to speak. It includes horse jumps and the first ride of the season, a “drag hunt” that marks the route riders will follow through Moore County Hounds’ home hunting land over the winter. The entire event lasts about an hour. You’ll have plenty of time to get home to roast and feast.

Moore County Hounds, which turned 100 years old last year, is the oldest registered foxhunt in North Carolina. The institution was begun by the Boyd family and passed directly down to the Moss family, whose great-niece, Cameron Sadler, has been a lifelong member and, for the last ten years, a

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Joint Master. Buchan Field, to which the annual blessing moved last year, “was my great aunt’s field,” Sadler says. It was part of the original Moss property, which is now established as the Walthour-Moss Foundation, a 4,000-acre tract where the Moore County Hounds organization hunts.

The woodlands, like the annual blessing and the sport it honors, have not changed much in 100 years. The hounds and horses look much as they always have; riders still wear their traditional Pinques; the structure of the hunt is wellestablished. Yet foxhunting is changing.

The change is subtle, and much of it is detectable not by the eye, but only by the ears and nose. These shifts in the pursuit, some natural, some strategic, are helping to ensure the hunt’s vitality in its second century in the Sandhills.

The change begins right underneath the surface of foxhunting’s very name. In fact, most of the quarry is now home to coyotes, not foxes. Coyotes run faster and straighter than foxes, which are known for their zigzag movements. Over time, Moore County Hounds has changed the breed of its dogs in accordance with the change in the quarry. In order to keep up with the faster coyotes, “you might think you want a very fast hound,” Sadler says.

“But what you really want is a hound with great scenting and great voice: to track the scent of a fast-running coyote as it runs from the hunting land; and so that the hounds can all hear each other and we can hear them. The Penn-Marydel breed is especially known for having amazing voices.” In recent years, Moore County Hounds has switched to the breed (whose portmanteau name derives from “Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware.”)

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scenting picks up the scent before it disappears.

So our hounds are uniquely suited to hunting in the Sandhills, especially now that the quarry has coyotes. They’re also lovely and very friendly animals. Kids can pet them at the blessing.”

The change in foxhunting breed isn’t restricted to the hounds. The breed of rider has changed, too, in step with American life. Fewer riders take up the sport in their childhood, as Sadler and much of her generation did. More and more are coming to it in their adulthood. “Nowadays, most people work full-time jobs and ride on the weekends,” Sadler says, “but our hounds still go out three times a week.”

Learning to ride as an adult is different, of course, than absorbing it in youth. Sadler compares it to skiing. In order to accommodate a changing, more varied riding community, the Moore County hunt is divided into three flights, with ascending levels of speed and jumping.

(The first level, called the Hilltoppers, does no jumping at all.) Each flight is led by a different Joint Master.

And even the masters are changing. This year, Dr. Lloyd “Jock” Tate was named Moore County Hounds Master of the Hunt. Although he’s new to the role, “he has a very long history of hunting here,” Sadler says, “longer than any other person in the hunt – 57 years,” she estimates. The wonder is that Tate didn’t assume the Master of the Hunt role sooner.

Nonetheless, his appointment comes at an opportune time. Tate brings stability and continuity to a changing tradition, and, with many of the old guard of Moore County Hounds often called away by work and other obligations, a constant local presence, as well – and he knows horses literally inside and out: He is a surgeon at both the Equine Health Center at Southern Pines and North Carolina State University’s Department of Veterinary Medicine. “Jock was a natural choice for us,” says Sadler, and you can take her word for it. She’s known him nearly all her life.

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The Blessing of the Hounds takes place Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, at 10am at Buchan Field in Southern Pines, near the intersection of North May Street and Mile Away Lane.

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GIVING BACK TO PINEHURST

The holiday season is a time of gift giving.

The gift of your time can make all the difference in someone’s life or to an organization and can be a rewarding experience for you, the giver.

Story and Photography by Dolores Muller

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Statistics show that Americans gave 7.7 billion hours of volunteer service, worth $173 billion dollars, last year. Your time is equivalent to a monetary donation. Ours is a giving community and there are so many ways to give back. Whether you’re interested in helping children, animals, senior citizens, veterans or people in need, there is an organization that wants your help. Here is a sampling of volunteer opportunities in our area.

Helping someone to learn to read, read better or learn to speak English can be life changing for those people. Wouldn’t it be gratifying to know that you helped someone have a better life? The Moore County Literacy Council, located in Southern Pines, is an organization that does just that. The founders recognized the crippling effect of illiteracy on individuals, families and communities, and how the ability to read could open the universe for those who desire to grow and prosper. Tutor Katherine Stevenson says, “When it comes to learning to read, adults are often overlooked. We teach them to read.”

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Perhaps you’re an animal lover.There are plenty of opportunities to help our four-legged friends.

The Citizen’s Pet Responsibility Committee organization has developed a program which, in cooperation with Moore County schools, trains volunteers to teach fourth graders how to be better and more responsible pet owners. Angela Zumwalt, co-founder of the organization, says, “We began in 2008 teaching in one school. We now have the program in 18 schools. We are always in need of volunteers who love animals and children.” Angela goes on to say, “Our volunteer teachers and assistants are provided with training and classroom teaching guidelines, so anyone can do it.

This is not a feel-good program, but rather reinforces what they learn across their curriculum.

Children hone their math skills by calculating the cost of maintaining an animal, and the end of the program composition requirement teaches writing skills.” If you don’t want to teach, the Moore County Animal Center is always looking for greeters, kitty cuddlers and dog walkers.

Another opportunity to help children is through Project Linus. This organization makes handcrafted blankets for children in need. I spoke with MJ White, who has been involved with this organization for the past four years. MJ says, “We meet for three hours in the morning on the second Saturday of each month at FirstHealth Hospital.” MJ added, “I enjoy making things, it’s fun, we socialize and most importantly, I am doing it for children”. She adds that if you don’t have time to donate to Project Linus, yarn donations are always welcome. The comic strip Peanuts character Linus always needed his security blanket and so do many children in our community.

Senior centers, nursing homes and assisted living facilities always need volunteers. My mom and dad were in an assisted living facility, so I saw how lonely it could be for seniors who had no family nearby. I observed first-hand how appreciative seniors are to have someone provide companionship, instruct them with arts and crafts projects, or read to them if their sight is impaired.

I remember how the residents looked forward to the monthly visit of a gentleman that entertained playing his guitar and singing. Perhaps you have a talent or time to share once a month, once a week or whenever is convenient for you. That’s one of the nice things about giving back, usually you can do it when you have the time and organizations are grateful for any time you can spare. Penick Village, St. Joseph of the Pines and Elmcroft of Southern Pines are just a few of many senior living facilities needing help.

Do you like to garden or love plants? If you do, then volunteering at the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens might be just the ticket. They need greeters at the Ball Visitors Center and docents to conduct tours through the gardens. What a fun way to donate your time in a beautiful garden setting.

If you are working, raising a family or just don’t have the time or inclination to volunteer, monetary donation opportunities abound. I can think of no organization that would refuse a donation of money.

MIRA is one such organization needing funds and volunteers. MIRA USA is the only organization that provides guide dogs to blind children. After becoming blind himself, founder Bob Baillie discovered that there were organizations that Pinehurstmagazine.com 57

provided guide dogs to adults but none to children. It costs $60,000 dollars to secure and train each dog. The impact on a child’s life is astounding. Dog recipient Darcie Crane says, “Before getting a dog, life in school was difficult. No one wanted to socialize with a blind girl, but now I am the girl with the cool dog.” Another recipient, Meredith Ballard, is in her second year of college studying law at Campbell University because a guide dog gave her the mobility and freedom to pursue her goals.

The Sandhills Women’s Exchange has just re-opened.

It has operated for 93 years and needs donations and volunteers interested in working in the gift shop or waitressing in the lunchroom in the historically significant log cabin in Pinehurst.

This nationwide organization focuses on helping people help themselves through the sale of their artisan’s handmade items.

Profits from the lunches support the preservation of the cabin, circa 1810.

For those in the medical field who would like to contribute their skills, the Moore Free Care Clinic is always in need of physicians and nurses. They, like other organizations, need receptionists and clerical help as well.

As one organization states, “loving hearts and helping hands wanted.” If this speaks to you, Google “volunteer opportunities” to find numerous organizations in our area needing help or call (RSVP) at 910.215.0900. They have compiled a list of 37 local organizations needing volunteers.

Give your time, talent and experience to your community and neighbors who need you.

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FirstHealth Encourages Community to

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With more than 3 million members, the nursing profession is the largest segment of the American health care workforce. Put into local context, nursing represents 24 percent of the FirstHealth of the Carolinas employee base.

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Every time she participates in new nurse orientation at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, chief nursing officer Karen Robeano, DNP, R.N., looks out on a sea of eager faces and asks a question.

“How many of you would like to go back to school?”

Fully two-thirds to three-quarters of those in the room will usually respond in the affirmative.

Robeano will then follow up with a second question.

“How many of you are looking forward to going back to school?”

She is happy to report that she will always get the same response.

For generations, the reliable two-year associate degree in nursing conferred by community colleges or on-site hospital nursing school programs has been the educational backbone of the nursing profession. However, with the technological demands of 21st century health care and the everincreasing insistence on quality due to the public availability of patient outcomes information, hospitals are not only beginning to expect but also to demand four-year baccalaureate degrees from their nurses.

And nurses are embracing opportunities to seek it.

“It’s not only expected but required for our patients,” Robeano says.

Through The Foundation of FirstHealth’s

recently launched “Stand Up 4 Nurses” matching challenge campaign, an anonymous donor and a supportive community are doing their best to ensure that FirstHealth of the Carolinas nurses have every opportunity to advance themselves. .............................................

On being a FirstHealth nurse “It’s very challenging – physically and mentally challenging – but I really enjoy what I do. That’s what I’m here for.”

Kim McNeill, R.N. 2 Neuro (neurology) Moore Regional Hospital

“(Our patients) are very vulnerable and scared. It takes compassion to be able to guide them through this journey.”

Laura Farrell, R.N. FirstHealth Outpatient Cancer Center .............................................

“The Future of Nursing” Recognizing the challenges the nursing profession faces in meeting the nation’s health care needs while fulfilling the reform expectations outlined by the federal Affordable Care Act, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) partnered to establish a two-year initiative called “The Future of Nursing.”

Subsequently, RWJF and the AARP partnered to establish “The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action” aimed at improving the health of Americans by transforming the nursing profession.

In keeping with the IOM’s charge to identify “vital roles for nurses in designing and implementing a more effective and efficient health care system,” report recommendations fall right in line with the goals of “Stand Up 4 Nurses,” which was introduced earlier this year by The Foundation of FirstHealth and FirstHealth nursing administration. Two of those recommendations seem especially appropriate to FirstHealth:

• To increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80 percent by 2020 • To ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning Robeano is committed to these goals, which she sees as central to FirstHealth’s “top goal” of being in the top 10 percent of health care quality measures.

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“To help achieve that, we want to make sure we’re removing barriers for advanced education for our nursing work force,” Robeano says. “We don’t want finances and other barriers to be the reason we don’t achieve that. We want to make sure finances don’t stand in the way.” .............................................

On being a FirstHealth nurse “To see the progress (our patients) make with our help – that makes me happy.”

Barbara Harbeck, R.N. FirstHealth Home Care

“There’s nothing better than to take care of little babies who need you.”

Kelli Baker, R.N. Clarke Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Moore Regional Hospital .............................................

The Stand Up 4 Nurses campaign began with a pledge from an anonymous donor to match, dollar for dollar, $50,000 in community donations if the money could be raised by the end of September of this year. By the end of the challenge period, that goal had not only been reached but surpassed.

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“This challenge gift ignited the planning stage and empowered a group of loyal Foundation leaders to move faster than we imagined possible,” says Kathleen Stockham, president of The Foundation of FirstHealth, “and it will continue to propel the support for nursing for many years to come.”

In keeping with the “Stand Up 4 Nurses” initiative, The Foundation’s long-term strategic goal is to grow an endowment of $10 million so that its interest can provide nursing education and enrichment opportunities to FirstHealth’s nursing staff on an annual basis for generations.

“Through an organized program, anyone can easily honor the nurses who have cared for them or their loved ones,” Stockham says.

“We also hope that, through this program, our nurses can truly absorb and witness how much they are valued.”

Although introduced during FirstHealth’s observation of National Nurses Week in May, the “Stand Up 4 Nurses” effort was recently reinforced when Foundation supporters and others surprised nurses in patient care areas throughout the organization with baked goods and gifts while sharing information on the “Stand Up 4 Nurses” campaign and its impact on nursing.

“We thought it was important that our nurses understand that donations to ‘Stand Up 4 Nurses’ will contribute to an enhanced nursing enrichment program and that our generous community truly wants to impact their profession,” says Deana Kearns, MSN, R.N.-BC, administrative director of Medical Nursing/Clinical Practice.

As one of the “five pillars” for The Foundation’s model for innovative health care, Nursing Enrichment joins Cancer Care, Heart Care, Physician Leadership and the Clara McLean House as strategic initiatives for sustaining FirstHealth’s mission “to care for people.” .............................................

On being a FirstHealth nurse “It’s a passion of mine to help both the patients and their families through the intensive care experience.”

Sheryl Loehr, R.N. Cardiac Critical Care

“It’s part of my job to make it a good experience. It’s just the best feeling in the world.”

Pamela Garner, R.N. Labor & Delivery Moore Regional Hospital .............................................

The career of chief nursing officer Robeano is itself a statement to the value of advanced education.

She says she always knew she wanted to get her master’s degree, but her appreciation of education and what it can mean professionally has taken her even further.

She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing from The Ohio State University and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from Texas Christian University. In June 2010, she completed the Johnson & Johnson/Wharton Fellow for Nurse Executives program.

Beginning her professional career as a staff R.N. in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Columbus Children’s Hospital in Ohio, Robeano had served in numerous nursing and patient care service leadership capacities in Ohio and Texas before joining the FirstHealth administrative team in 2013.

“Advanced education gives you a broader view of the patient,” she says. “It gives you a broader view of the world.” .............................................

On being a FirstHealth nurse “We treat people the way we want to be treated, and we’re sincere about the care we’re giving.”

Cedric Lee, R.N. Emergency Department Moore Regional HospitalHoke Campus .............................................

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4th Annual Children’s Treasure Trail Adventure

Abby and Luther Malachi & Gabriel Beall

Christine, Ella, Mary & Callip Hall

Hosted by the Sandhills Horticultural Society Held at the Horticultural Gardens on August 22nd Bob & Ruth Stolting’s beekeeping exhibit

Abigail Underhill

The Army Ground Forces Band “Dixie Sergeants”

Jessica & Jaidyn Mark, Cheyenne & Robin Redman, Isabella Robinson and Jesse Lienhard

Bobby Messano

PINEHURST PATRIOT’S WEEKEND

Lucus, Cathy & Elizabeth Southerland & Thora

Remembrance of 9/11 Anniversary Held at Tuft’s Memorial Park September 11th-13th Colton Maddox

Caren & Gary Broadwell Alyssa Kern and Sydney Baldwin

Pat & Jim Rozanski with Mickey

Charlotte & Ken Barteau, Brianna & Opie Hagan

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Sandhills Sightings MOORE COUNTY KENNEL CLUB DOG SHOW

SPC Johnson & Filip

Held on September 12th & 13th at the Harness Track in Pinehurst Fort Bragg 550th Military Working Dogs Detachment SPC Squires, SPC Johnson, SSG Rader, SPC Carpio, SFC Meier & 1st Lt. Ruffin

Conner Price & Lotta Best in Show puppy Patrice Kaizer & Stinger

Becker Reep & Katmai

Bob Lowery, Laura Creed & Penn Daniel & Samantha Hodges & Colt

Amy Albert, Laurie Thompson, Orion, Bill & Catherine Mitchell

Yorkie

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Gus Sinibaldi & Ellen

Kristin Black & Golden puppy Gala

Bull Terrier Petra

Terry Parsel, Gina Vernon, Keith Coalson, Mindy Luck, Sara Byerly, Lisa Bruno and Sherry Lee

CYCLE NORTH CAROLINA “Mountains to Coast Ride” Stopping in Pinehurst and Southern Pines on September 30th

Chris Harris and Ed Micalizzi Lee Smye

Ian Passwaters and Charles Todd

Tim Johnston and Celia Linning

Eric Weldy, DeLette Spain, Steve & Jackie Woodward

Terry Takkers and Archie Benton

Jason & Michelle Howk

Patti Fisher and Audrey Moriarty Ryan Book

Al & Betty Mangum, Dave & Judy McCaffrey, Jacque & Jerry Weston

PINEHURST PROMENADE III Robert & Julie Neff

A tour of eight historic homes in Pinehurst benefiting Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives held on September 26th and 27th

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Sandhills Sightings TWILIGHT - CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC 6th ANNUAL GALA

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Held on September 19th at The Carolina Hotel Sandhills Classical Christian School choir

Lori & Ashley Beale Amy Bresky, Robin Sanoie, Joyce Giles, Sue Smithson, Kathy Bennett and Maureen Wurzel Michael & Lynn Antil and Dennis & Cassie Campbell

Twila Tuxbury, Michele, Heath, Kimber & Kendall Niemi

Addison & Brittney Painter

Kendra & Alan Marshall

Amy, Julie & Biko

Simon & Ariel Grald

Glen & Helen Roat, Myles & Heather Larsen

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The Horse Farm Tour benefiting Prancing Horse Therapeutic Riding Held on October 18th

SANDHILLS WOMEN’S EXCHANGE VINTAGE FASHION SHOW AND BRUNCH

The Towles

Held September 21st at The Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst Three generations: Peggy Kirk Bell, Bonnie & Scotti McGowan

Fran Dixon with Karen, Benjamin & Patrick Snyder Hunter Hair with Annie Oakley, aka Carla St. Germaine Chuck & Cav Peterson

Tabitha Speer, Tonia Myres and Amie Karshner

Julie Neff, Char Rohr, Elizabeth Fisher and Dolly Brown

Danny, Yvon, Ivan & Daniel Severino

Cortney Owens & K-2 dog Dexter

Barrel racing in the rain The Fishers

ANNIE OAKLEY BOOM DAYS Lucinda Carpenter

Held on October 10th at the Pinehurst Harness Track and Fair Barn

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Sandhills WOMEN’S EXCHANGE GRAND RE-OPENING Held on September 9th at the Women’s Exchange cabin Pinehurst mayor Nancy Fiorillo, council members, candidates, Cav Peterson and Debbie Ewing

Photography: Bartosz Potocki

Chef Debbie Ewing

Marie Carbrea, John Cashion & Cav Peterson

23rd annual sardine festival Held on Friday, October 9th at Aberdeen Lake Park © Photos by Chelsey & Co. Bridget Ingram, AJ Ingram, Tirzah Ingram

The 2016 Sardine Queen, Lynn McGugan, with members of the Quicksilver Cloggers

Lottie & Van Barbee

Carlton & Ruth Johnson, Carla Herring

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